No. 4among public research universities in Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant recipients.

Global Recognition

Pitt ranks in the top 10 percent in teaching, the top 20 percent in research, and the top 10 percent in citations in the 2016 Times Higher Education World University Rankings of the world's top 800 universities.

U.S. News & World Report ranks Pitt 47th on its list of the best global research universities. The publication collected data from 750 universities worldwide.

Pitt also ranks high among universities in the number of alumni serving as Peace Corps volunteers, and it’s a top producer of Fulbright awards for U.S. students. In addition, since 1997 Pitt students have received 29 David L. Boren Scholarships and 19 Boren Fellowships for international study.

Global Vision

The University of Pittsburgh is committed to developing students into global citizens and leaders, pursuing research and scholarship that increases global understanding, and improving people's lives by studying and solving the world's most critical problems. Read Pitt’s global vision and strategy »

Centers, Institutes, and Programs

Pitt is home to a wide variety of international centers, institutes, and programs including four area-studies centers designated National Resource Centers by the U.S. Department of Education.

Languages

From introductory to high-fluency classes…from study-abroad immersion programs to summer intensive language courses…adding a foreign language to your Pitt academic program is easy. The University offers instruction in more than 35 languages. Learn more »

Pitt People Changing the World

Stockholm University awarded an honorary doctorate to Distinguished Professor Emerita Marcia Landy in September in appreciation for her outstanding contributions to the humanities.

Jennifer Murtazashvili, an assistant professor in Pitt's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and an affiliated faculty member of the University's Center for Russian and East European Studies, has been elected to the executive board of the Central Eurasian Studies Society.

Lauren Perez, a PhD candidate in political science, has been offered a four-year post-doctoral position at the University of Chicago through the highly competitive Harper-Schmidt Fellowship Program. Jonathan Sherry, a PhD candidate in history, has won a Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the Council for European Studies, the most prestigious European Studies organization in the United States.

Pitt's history department has awarded its William Stanton Prize for the best honors thesis in history written in the 2015-16 academic year to Halak Mehta for her thesis on Kazakhstan's use of its culture and history. Mehta was mentored and supervised by German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Visiting Professor Katja Wezel. One of the few DAAD visiting professors at a U.S. university, Wezel is "a great example of how Pitt's top-level international scholarly connections enrich undergraduate education," said history department chair Lara Putnam.

A team of Pitt law students won the fifth annual LLM International Commercial Arbitration Moot Competition, held April 7-8, 2016 at American University's Washington College of Law. The team included Gustavo Arrobo (Ecuador), Nevena Jevremovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Glory Ohaekwusi (Nigeria), and James Ochieng (Kenya). Team advisor Ronald Brand, academic director of Pitt's Center for International Legal Education, said the moot competition involved a sophisticated investor-state arbitration that required significant research, writing, and preparation for the oral argument.

Nuno Themudo, an associate professor in Pitt's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, won The American Review of Public Administration Best Article Award from the American Political Science Association in 2015.

One of two annual Milan Hodža Awards of Honor was presented in 2015 to Martin Votruba, head of Pitt's Slovak Studies Program, “for the advancement of knowledge of Slovak history and culture in the Slavic department at the University of Pittsburgh and for his support to the preservation of Slovak culture in the awareness of Slovak-Americans and public at large,” according to the award citation. Pitt is the only university in the United States where students can enroll in Slovak language and culture classes and receive a minor in Slovak studies.

Pitt economics professor Thomas G. Rawski has been named as one of the United States' Top 20 China Experts by the China Foreign Affairs University, the leading diplomatic school in the People's Republic of China (PRC). The university emphasizd Rawski's deep understanding of the PRC, gained through first-hand research there.

James Cook, associate director of Pitt's Asian Studies Center, has been named as a Distinguished Overseas Educator by China's Ministry of Education. His work brings together Chinese and U.S. researchers to solve critical environmental and public health issues in northwestern China. Cook has completed several grants sponsored by the United States' National Science Foundation and the China Medical Board in cooperation with the Center for Historical Environment and Socioeconomic Development of Northwest China and the Center for Experimental Economics Education at Shaanxi Normal University.

Pitt’s University Center for International Studies awarded its 2014-15 Sheth International Achievement Awards to Pitt engineering professor Minking Chyu and Asha Williams (GSPIA ’07), a social-protection consultant at the World Bank in Washington, DC. Chyu, winner in the Sheth Awards’ faculty category, was honored for furthering international education. He is the inaugural dean of the Sichuan University-Pittsburgh Institute, an engineering-education partnership between the two schools that will enroll its first students in fall 2015. Williams was honored in the Sheth Awards’ alumni category for her social-protection and social-development work, primarily in the eastern Caribbean’s small island states.

B. Guy Peters received an honorary doctorate—his fourth—from Belgium's Katholieke Universiteit in 2015. During the conferring ceremony, Peters was described as "the most eminent public administration scholar of our time" and an "expert in American government, a leading comparativist, a much-read interpretor and creator of administrative paradigms, and a prolific author of profound research and engaging prose." Peters, the Maurice Falk Professor of American Governance in Pitt's Department of Political Science, has written and edited more than 70 books; he also has written numerous articles and founded several leading journals.

Study Abroad

Feature Stories

Top Fulbright Producer

Pitt is a top producer of Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant winners, placing fourth among U.S. public universities and 14th among all research universities in the nation. Read More »

What's Up With the World

The latest video in the "What's Up With the World" series, a collaborative effort of Pitt's Global Studies Center and the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh, examines how the Olympic Games reflect world politics. Read More »

Nationality Rooms

The Nationality Classrooms in Pitt’s Cathedral of Learning represent the heritages of the peoples who built Pittsburgh. Read More »

Resources

Global Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh has long been a melting pot of cultures from every part of the world. Today, the city—including its powerful education and medical (“eds and meds”) sector—attracts students and professionals from around the world. Read More »